Dan Tobin
Tobin in the TV series Four Star Playhouse (1953)
Born
Daniel Malloy Tobin

(1910-10-19)October 19, 1910
Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
DiedNovember 26, 1982(1982-11-26) (aged 72)
Santa Monica, California, U.S.
OccupationActor
Years active1939–1974
Spouse
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(m. 1951)​

Daniel Malloy Tobin (October 19, 1910 – November 26, 1982) was an American supporting actor on the stage, in films and on television. He generally played gentle, urbane, rather fussy, sometimes obsequious and shifty characters, often with a concealed edge of malice.

Early years

Tobin was a native of Cincinnati, and he attended the University of Cincinnati.[1]

Career

Tobin made his Broadway debut in American Holiday in 1936.[2] He then joined a touring troupe in England and was seen by an impresario in a production of Ah, Wilderness! As a result, he won roles in Behind Your Back at London's Strand Theatre (1937) and Mary Goes to See at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket (1938).[1]

Dan Tobin and Katharine Hepburn on Broadway in The Philadelphia Story (1939)

Tobin then played Alexander 'Sandy' Lord in the original 1939 Broadway production of Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story.

With Cary Grant in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)

Tobin's most memorable roles were as the overbearing secretary, Gerald, in the 1942 film Woman of the Year and the top-billed scientist in Orson Welles's innovative, Peabody Award-winning, unsold television pilot The Fountain of Youth, filmed in 1956 and televised once two years later as an instalment of NBC's Colgate Theatre. Tobin's final film role was opposite John Huston in Welles's The Other Side of the Wind, shot in the early 1970s and released in 2018.

On television, Tobin was a regular on I Married Joan,[3] My Favorite Husband,[3]: 729  Mr. Adams and Eve, and Where Were You?[3]: 1170  In 1966, he became a regular during the final season of Perry Mason as the proprietor of Clay's Grill. He'd made a prior Mason appearance in 1964, as Dickens the butler in "The Case of the Scandalous Sculptor". TV Guide credits him with 44 television appearances.[4]

Personal life

Tobin was married to film and television screenwriter Jean Holloway (born Gratia Jean Casey) from 1951 to his death in 1982.[5] They met on the set of The First Hundred Years.

Death

Tobin died in Saint John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California, in November 1982, at age 72. He was survived by his wife.[6]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1939Black LimelightRoberts - Reporter
1942Woman of the YearGerald Howe
1946UndercurrentProfessor Joseph Bangs
1947A Likely StoryPhil Bright
1947The Bachelor and the Bobby-SoxerChester WaltersReleased as Bachelor Knight (UK)
1948The Big ClockRay Cordette
1948Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream HouseBunny FunkhauserUncredited
1948The Velvet TouchJeff Trent
1948Sealed VerdictLt. Parker
1948Miss Tatlock's MillionsClifford Tatlock
1949Song of SurrenderClyde Atherton
1950The Magnificent YankeeDixonUncredited
1951Queen for a DayOwen Cruger
1951 The First Hundred Years Mr. Thayer[5]
1953Dream WifeMr. Brown
1956The Catered AffairHotel Caterer
1956It's Always JanJack AdamsTV series, episode "Guilty Conscience"
1957Mr. Adams and EveBurt StewartTV series, regular cast
1959The Last Angry ManBen Loomer
1961The Andy Griffith Show"Gentleman" Dan Caldwell
1962Who's Got the Action?Mr. Sanford
1965-1967BewitchedMr Sanders, Ed Pennybaker, Mr Ames, MayorS1E23 S2E28 S3E23 S3E32
1965The Dick Van Dyke ShowFergusonS5 e7, "The Great Petrie Fortune,"
1965The MunstersReginald StubbsTV series, episode "Country Club Munsters"
1963 & 1966Gunsmoke“Foote” & “The Professor”TV series, episodes “Panacea Sykes” & "Champion of the World"
1967How to Succeed in Business Without Really TryingJohnson
1968Hogan's HeroesGeneral von Treger
1969-1970The Ghost and Mrs. MuirMr. Hampton / Dr. Ryan McNallyTV series, 2 episodes
1974Herbie Rides AgainLawyer
2018The Other Side of the WindDr. Burroughs(final film role, scenes filmed in the early 1970s)

References

  1. 1 2 "Invited Out!". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 19, 1939. p. 32. Retrieved June 17, 2017 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. ↑ "Dan Tobin: Performer". Playbill. Archived from the original on June 17, 2017. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 Terrace, Vincent (January 10, 2014). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2nd ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company. p. 493. ISBN 978-0-7864-6477-7.
  4. ↑ "Dan Tobin". TV Guide. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  5. 1 2 "Radio-TV". Cincinnati Post. October 13, 1951. p. 15.
  6. ↑ "Character actor Dan Tobin, whose career ranged from movies..." United Press International Archives. United Press International. November 28, 1982. Archived from the original on June 17, 2017. Retrieved June 17, 2017.
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